Thank you to Christine Bee Luxury Knits – a mother daughter collaboration that offers the most beautiful vintage-chic knit accessories – for including me in their “Tea Dreams” Treasury!!

So the studio looks a bit more like a studio then a dumping ground! I just wanted to let everyone know that the shop has been updated with the remaining inventory from Rhinebeck.

Next on the infamous To-Do list – Carding!!

Thank you to The Rainbow Girl – creator of stunning hand dyed fabric and threads for use in contemporary embroidered textiles – for including me in the EtsyFAST – “Silky Soft” Etsy Treasury!!

I needed to take a break from the multitude of projects I am working on to share with (perhaps even taunt) you with a photo of my contribution to the September Phat Fiber Sampler:

For those of you not familiar with the Phat Fiber Sampler you might want to take a quick look at this POST – then sign up HERE to receive Email notification of the exact date and times the box is posted for sale on ETSY. Oh, and if you like free stuff – and I mean really incredible indie crafted free stuff; be sure to add the Phat Fiber Blog to your blog reader!

Did you really think I would post a colour picture of the contribution?! I will offer these tidbits…

Each sample  is .50 ounces of 64’s Merino wool top handpainted in a never released colourway named ‘Minotaur’. In addition to the 50 samples shipping to PF-HQ I will be sending a 4 ounce carded batt (in the same colourway) for the blog giveaway!

Some may recall this POST, however I suspect that most do not as it was written one month before I officially opened my shop.

This morning I was pleasantly surprised (well, not really “surprised” – anyone who has an Etsy shop will admit to the  fact that the “Hearts” section of their shop is perhaps one of their most viewed pages) to find that three hundred people have declared their love for my shop. Crazy huh?

So much has happened since I opened the shop – I am so thankful to each and every person who took a chance on me!

Thank you to Engelfelt Designs for including me in the ‘Etsy Fiber Art Street Team’ – “FAST and furious” Etsy Treasury!!

Sorry for my absence as of late. Summer is here and ’round these parts that is when we make bank. Well, not really ‘bank’ but enough to get through the winter.

Although my posting slowed down during the tour, my spinning did not! I am proud to declare that I was able to keep to my commitment of at least 15 minutes a day – even with work schedule’o'madness. And I am even prouder to admit that I started to knit a pair of socks from one of the tour yarns.

Betcha didn’t even know that I knew how to knit.

Oh, and the real (or at least the most exciting) purpose of this arbitrary photo-less post…

I received over 50lbs of new fiber from one of (yes, exactly “one of” – in the past month I have applied for and been approved by two new wholesale accounts) my new suppliers.

Some new fibers you will soon see in the shop:

Merino/Silk

Merino/Tencel

Merino/Cashmere

BFL

Corridale

Wensleydale

Thanks to Stockannette I am listed in my first Etsy Treasury!!

Oh, you may be wondering what handpainted fiber has to do with Kathy Griffin? Your not alone, I too wondered. Well, the featured fiber shares the name “Chance” with one of Kathy’s dogs! Now if you will excuse me, I need to go fetch this screen shot from the printer and hang it on my refrigerator.

Yes, it is that big of a deal…

I just wanted to share with everyone that, well, I like stuff…

Especially like handmade stuff.

Now that everyone knows my little secret, I want to share with you some beautiful hand embroidered magnets that I received as a gift from one very talented artist by the name of Alison Tauber – aren’t they precious!! These little gems are only 3/4″. Tiny, perfect, hand stitched bits of awesomeness.

This women is so talented, and it does not stop at embroidery. Rather then me telling you how awesome she is and how incredible her shirts are, or how delightful her hand sewn pillows are, or even how exquisite her scarves are, why not stop by her shop and and decide for yourself?

So amidst the insanity that took place this week I was able to get a couple days in the studio. I am SO thankful that things will slow down after this weekend; even if it is just for a few weeks…

I just wanted to share some photos from a batch of four individual colourways for a custom order based on a sample (an undocumented one at that) I sent off to a customer.

Hopefully one of them hits the mark!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!